We may go back to not having toilets again. The Ancient Romans had nice toilets and sewers and baths 3000 years ago. Then after the fall of the empire, and the ensuing dark ages, people were shitting in pots and throwing it out the window into the street. Until about the 17th cenutry. I think Queen Elisabeth had one of the first toilets.

I wish all our troubles could be attributed to "ignorance", but there is far more complex and intelligent planning going on here then most people would like to admit. The money-men are not dumb; arrogant maybe, but not dumb, and Obama takes his marching order from them.

The Romans didn't have flush toilets, but they did have sewers and public baths. Unfortunately public baths were unhealthy as sick people often went to the public baths which ended up infecting other bathers.

If you don't want to watch the video here is a short summery. When he made that statement he claimed to have visited 57 States, had one remaining State to visit, and his security team was not going to allow him to visit Alaska and Hawaii. That's 60 States.

I totally agree with Oldwood. We get the government we deserve. Guns and butter is keeping enough of the population under control that the ones who see the emperor has no clothes have no chance of getting the ball rolling. The Red Pill/Blue Pill ratio is still too low for us to get out from under this cloud of mind control.

Discomfort will not lead to rebellion. It takes outrage. I don't see it yet. If the Pigmen are smart, which they are, they will manage the outrate index to below a tipping point line, and the day of reckoning we are all secretly hoping for may never come. Plan accordingly.

" It's a deep and all but certain truth about narcissistic personalities that to meet them is to love them, but to know them well is to find them unbearable. Confidence quickly curdles into arrogance; smarts turn to smugness, charm turns to smarm."

The dumber they are the bigger the windbag. Spoiled children think they know it all too, so we're born with it. It's a sign of immaturity and foolishness at any age. And that's our bigger societal problem, we're a bunch of all ego, no substance, dumb know it all bitchez. The truly intelligent people know they don't know squat about anything.

The "problem" with learning new things / ideas, is that the more you learn, the more you realise you do not know, and that in itself is a rather humbling experience.

In "The Good Old Days" before the Internet as we now know it, "learning" usually meant Journal subscriptions, reprint requests and regular Library visits. Nowadays, everyone with Net access also has access to the "Global Library" - some of it good, some of it bad, but all information nevertheless (and those hyperlinks mean no more sticky notes with scribbled refrences). One would have thought (maybe expected) that with all this usually "free"and very readily obtained information, everyone would by now be a little more reasonable, and less dogmatic however we seem to see the opposite. More entrenched views, more social dissatisfaction, and a lot more violence both at home (domestic and National), and abroad (Wars and rumours of wars).

Today, it is easy to dismiss information and seek another one. In the yesterdays, library or book stores - you invested money and time to seek out maybe 2-6 books. As you did so, you felt the obligation to read them, no matter how stupid you felt for buying/lending it. This was a much healthier process, and gave plenty food for thought.

Now, I just click away whatever I don't want to hear, throw in some punches in the comment section - and off to infowars :-D (not really).

The naive idealistic view from the ivory towers... Unfortunately it often comes from the same bunch of pompous idiots who have utterly failed to teach the next generation how to think, despite being paid to do so and claiming to be experts in teaching.

A kid can now get a PhD without ever changing out of his pajamas and getting off the couch, either in his parents' or the frat house's basement. Yet instead of better writing or better research, the actual result has been the explosion of the iodiocrasy and its insane drivel passing for educated writing.

"How can someone with only a 138 IQ not realize that they don't know it all?"

Because they are sociopaths, so by definition, they believe they are infallible in their own mind. They will never ever even consider that they don't know it all. The world today is run by sociopaths, and it explains why everything is so fucked.

I am going to go out on a limb here and suggest that both the mean IQ and the overall IQ distribution of Fight Club is shifted to the right of the general population.

That said, there are a lot of decent and noble people here that are standing up for principles greater than themselves, at great risk of being "listed".

Which suggests that the upper bound of intelligence that you quote and suggest is partially responsible to our ills is just not true.

I don't think it is intelligent people that are screwing us. No, these are socio/psychopathic people that will cross lines that you and I dare not cross.

THAT is the advantage that the establishment has. It's not "intelligence". No, it's ruthlessness and I doubt the R-squared on a fit between ruthlessness and intelligence is that high. So that leads me to believe that our masters are similar to the general population in IQ and are closer representative slice than you might think. From Congress right down to the thug with a badge.

My last pay check was $9500 working 12 hours a week online. My sisters friend has been averaging 15k for months now and she works about 20 hours a week. I can't believe how easy it was once I tried it out. This is what I do... http://goo.gl/bhiamE

here a comment:
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i can not say.
crap is old like the hills.
i wonder how many trillions,
capital T, of Q (quantity)
are required to call it
"big money"?
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i'm not sure how anythingmuch in the
universe could beat this?
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PETE ANDERSON & THE SWAMP SHAKERS - BABY LET'S PLAY HOUSE (Official video)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEwMJ81JyCo
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i was looking for pete anderson
"big money" but this other thing
arrived. the twist of fame?
the price of entry? the limits
of market availability? the state
of the union? the nature of
the beast? the lost moments and
potential of exposure and
obscurity? the message of the
mess-age?
"...like tears in rain" he said about
moments.
where is your poet?
where is your poet?
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long dead, still born or just obscured?
life provides everything, always ,,,,,
that is the difference between life and death.
life provides for itself

marketing older americans, who understand the cold war, represents a shift from marketing college students, who understand debt (anyway) this president has so many demographics ([evangelical and right wing] christian missionaries who have ebola - or are trapped on some mountian top by ISIS- MUST be brought back to the US) in time for the midterm elections. and older folks hate the roooskies. there is also the old civil rights movement, doesn't apply to muslims who hate america (much as blacks once hated the usg, we love them now). potus has many groups to market, how does he do it? does he have a big ad agency? or a propaganda network. or both. the marketing angle is tired, consumers no longer buy the product. the salesman reflects on his death

Think about all the domestic demand we will have for goods and services when we are no longer allowed to trade with the enemy? we are gona be rich, Globalism is a waste of resources, there is no reason to ship a boat full of steel to china, have them shape the steel into girders and then ship them back, save yourself the trip, the oil and the time, and make it here at home.

All Globalism does is feed a broken system and throw unnecessary amounts of fuel away, sure it might be more profitable in dollar terms to make things abroad, but the fuel youy burn to doit is more valuable in the future than it is today.